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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






2. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






3. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






4. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






5. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






6. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






7. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






8. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






9. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






10. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






11. A three-line stanza.






12. A poem that tells a story.






13. The time and place of a story or play.






14. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






15. The organizational form of a literary work.






16. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






17. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






18. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






19. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






20. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






21. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






22. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






23. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






24. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






25. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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26. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






27. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






28. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






29. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






30. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






31. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






32. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






33. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






34. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






35. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






36. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






37. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






38. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






39. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






40. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






41. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






42. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






43. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






44. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






45. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






46. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






47. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






48. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






49. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






50. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






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